The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy. — Mario Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Together, we are making Maryland more competitive, creating new jobs, and growing our economy one business at a time. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome. — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them,… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification;… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
